Urban Light
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To celebrate the first anniversary of Urban Light--Chris Burden's landmark installation of 202 vintage street lamps, which joined LACMA's collection in February
To celebrate the first anniversary of Urban Light--Chris Burden's landmark installation of 202 vintage street lamps, which joined LACMA's collection in February 2008 thanks to the generosity of the Gordon Family Foundation--we're calling for submissions of videos, photographs, and writing inspired by the work. Selected entries will be featured online and/or in a book of photos and text being created for the occasion.
HOW TO ENTER
Videos: Join this group and upload submissions to this page. Your videos may be up to 1GB in size and 10 minutes long.
Photographs: Upload submissions to the Urban Light group page on Flickr (flickr.com/groups/urbanlight).
Writing: Email submissions of up to 500 words to urbanlight@lacma.org with the subject line "writing submission." All formats--poems, essays, and short stories--are welcome. Please specify the format of your entry.
Contact information: In order for your work to be considered please include your name and e-mail address with your entry.
Note: LACMA may include among the entries additional Urban Light-related photographs and videos available on Flickr and YouTube.
Deadline: Submissions must be received no later than February 14, 2009.
RULES
LACMA invites interested parties to submit photographs, videos, and creative writing (collectively, ‘Entries’) that include, reference, or are inspired by Urban Light. The selected Entries will be published or displayed in one or more of the following:
• Presentation in a digital exhibition available via lacma.org
• Posting on lacma.org and/or on LACMA’s blog, Unframed (http://lacma.wordpress.com/); or
• Publication in a LACMA print-on-demand book celebrating the installation’s first anniversary.
For photographs, please provide only the original camera image with adjustments limited to cropping, levels, curves, and brightness/contrast.
LACMA retains sole discretion over the selection of, and the decision not to select, any particular Entry for publication or display.
LACMA will not consider any Entry that it determines in its sole discretion is obscene or contains objectionable content of any kind.
By submitting an Entry for consideration, you warrant and represent that:
• Your Entry is your own original work and you alone own copyright to your Entry. No other party has any right, title, claim or interest in your Entry and publication or display of your Entry does not violate or infringe another person's rights; and
• You have the approval of all individuals depicted in your Entry to use their images and likenesses for your submission and possible publication or display.
If LACMA determines in its sole discretion that any of the above warranties or representations has been breached, LACMA reserves the right to reject the Entry and to remove or delete the Entry from any publication or other display.
While you will retain your copyright, if any, in your Entry, by submitting an Entry, you are granting to LACMA the following rights: a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive royalty-free license, without further review or participation from you, (a) to copy, publish, distribute, perform and display your Entry, in whole or in part, in a LACMA exhibition, in a LACMA book, and/or on a LACMA website, (b) to make copies and duplicate CDs and/or DVDs of your Entry, (c) to reproduce images of your Entry, in whole or in part, and (d) to use your name as the creator of your Entry, throughout the world, in all media now known or hereafter invented (including without limitation photography, film, digital, audio and/or videotape, on radio, film, television, and on LACMA’s website and other web-based media, such as streaming and podcasting), for any and all purposes in accordance with LACMA’s mission (including without limitation exhibition catalogs and marketing campaigns, educational programs, posters, merchandise, and publications, and promotional purposes, such as press releases, advertisements, announcements, brochures, and other publications) and for preservation and archival purposes. (more) (less)
HOW TO ENTER
Videos: Join this group and upload submissions to this page. Your videos may be up to 1GB in size and 10 minutes long.
Photographs: Upload submissions to the Urban Light group page on Flickr (flickr.com/groups/urbanlight).
Writing: Email submissions of up to 500 words to urbanlight@lacma.org with the subject line "writing submission." All formats--poems, essays, and short stories--are welcome. Please specify the format of your entry.
Contact information: In order for your work to be considered please include your name and e-mail address with your entry.
Note: LACMA may include among the entries additional Urban Light-related photographs and videos available on Flickr and YouTube.
Deadline: Submissions must be received no later than February 14, 2009.
RULES
LACMA invites interested parties to submit photographs, videos, and creative writing (collectively, ‘Entries’) that include, reference, or are inspired by Urban Light. The selected Entries will be published or displayed in one or more of the following:
• Presentation in a digital exhibition available via lacma.org
• Posting on lacma.org and/or on LACMA’s blog, Unframed (http://lacma.wordpress.com/); or
• Publication in a LACMA print-on-demand book celebrating the installation’s first anniversary.
For photographs, please provide only the original camera image with adjustments limited to cropping, levels, curves, and brightness/contrast.
LACMA retains sole discretion over the selection of, and the decision not to select, any particular Entry for publication or display.
LACMA will not consider any Entry that it determines in its sole discretion is obscene or contains objectionable content of any kind.
By submitting an Entry for consideration, you warrant and represent that:
• Your Entry is your own original work and you alone own copyright to your Entry. No other party has any right, title, claim or interest in your Entry and publication or display of your Entry does not violate or infringe another person's rights; and
• You have the approval of all individuals depicted in your Entry to use their images and likenesses for your submission and possible publication or display.
If LACMA determines in its sole discretion that any of the above warranties or representations has been breached, LACMA reserves the right to reject the Entry and to remove or delete the Entry from any publication or other display.
While you will retain your copyright, if any, in your Entry, by submitting an Entry, you are granting to LACMA the following rights: a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive royalty-free license, without further review or participation from you, (a) to copy, publish, distribute, perform and display your Entry, in whole or in part, in a LACMA exhibition, in a LACMA book, and/or on a LACMA website, (b) to make copies and duplicate CDs and/or DVDs of your Entry, (c) to reproduce images of your Entry, in whole or in part, and (d) to use your name as the creator of your Entry, throughout the world, in all media now known or hereafter invented (including without limitation photography, film, digital, audio and/or videotape, on radio, film, television, and on LACMA’s website and other web-based media, such as streaming and podcasting), for any and all purposes in accordance with LACMA’s mission (including without limitation exhibition catalogs and marketing campaigns, educational programs, posters, merchandise, and publications, and promotional purposes, such as press releases, advertisements, announcements, brochures, and other publications) and for preservation and archival purposes. (more) (less)
